The issue is that the exterior of the 12th-century structure was under renovation when the fire broke out on April 15, and 50,000 tubes of scaffolding that were in place at the time are stil…
"The country's media regulatory body said Disney removed the clip to avoid the film being given a higher age rating. It is PG13, which means parental guidance is advised for children under 1…
In response to a quip about Cosby that Murphy made during the opening monologue of his return to Saturday Night Live, the now-jailed rapist's publicist said that Murphy "was given his freedo…
And that opera, Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), was composed by a woman " Pauline Viardot, remembered mostly for being one of the century's great mezzos. Amy Lorette Damron Kyle, a m…
"In 2019, there was a paradigm shift in how social media, and pop culture broadly, perceived gay women. It was as if lesbian culture " its memes, language, and stories " was suddenly mainstr…
"When the American Library Association introduced the Caldecott in 1938, the United States was an industrial giant but still a cultural stepchild of Europe. … So librarians wanted to jump-…
"For directors, they provide a way to evaluate dancers they might not otherwise see. For dancers, they expedite the cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming auditions process. But multi-comp…
After Rachel Cossar retired from Boston Ballet, she started a class called Choreography in the Kitchen to teach restaurant workers healthy ways to lift, bend and reach with poise. Then she w…
"I don't want to be Jasmine. She's one of my favorite princesses, but I don't want to perpetuate that stereotype: completely powerless, or overly sexualized," says the Baltimore-born daughte…
"Neither the identity of a murdered man found wrapped in an electric blanket by a busy [Dutch] motorway in August 1991 nor that of his killer have emerged in the decades since the discovery …
"Christ Mocked, by the 13th-century Florentine painter Cimabue, had hung for decades above a cooking hotplate in the kitchen of a 1960s house near Compiègne, north of Paris, before it was s…
The formidable Norwegian soprano Lisa Davidsen, making her Metropolitan Opera debut in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, is right now New York's most talked about opera singer. I caught the fin…
"Did you see my cardoons?" Mike pointed to a pile of leafless, longer celery. I have eaten cardoons, I remember, at an optimistic Sicilian-only restaurant in Manhattan, long- and quickly gon…
"At the top schools, administrators are fielding recruiting calls from television producers and managers, adding TV classes, and competing with high-paying shows for writers they can hire as…
"The mixture of sadness and sentimentality in 'Gift of the Magi' befits a man whose life was marked by repeated human tragedies. … The diseases of alcoholism and tuberculosis would haunt […
"The Welsh first minister has defended his government's handling of the festive Banksy work Season's Greetings, which is to be locked behind closed doors in a former police station after bei…
"In 2010, Hollywood was drunk on the success of Avatar and decided 3D tech was the wave of the future. … Large ensemble Garry Marshall rom-coms like Valentine's Day were still winners, as …
The august, tradition-bound orchestra, founded 177 years ago when Vienna was the capital of a now-vanished empire, would not allow women even to audition until 1997, despite years of critici…
"As dealers struggle to insure works of art bound for Hong Kong, where pro-democracy protestors continue to clash with police, Art Basel in Hong Kong organisers say they are working with a l…
"Over the years, around the world, there have been stories of ballet dancers having unhealthy diets, eating disorders and mental health issues. In more recent decades, the ballet world has r…
"Ded Moroz today is about what you would expect. He has a long white beard, wears a fur-lined hat, has an animal-towed sleigh, and delivers presents to well-behaved children when it is cold …
"At their best, the artists who died this year could make us see the world in new ways " even as they made us laugh and cry. Here is a tribute to some of them, in their own words." " The New…
"Underlying each of the disagreements in the letter is not just a matter of historical fact but a conflict about whether Americans, from the Founders to the present day, are committed to the…
How a traditional New Year's melody that dated back to the pre-Christian era (when the new year was celebrated in March), and which was introduced by a Ukrainian choir touring the U.S. while…
Do all uncooked foods talk back? Snap crackle crunch; that's how cerealized infants learn words for eating. Yet the sound of celery is curbed by wilt. And then comes heat, and silence. " Jef…